English
Related papers

Related papers: Instability of Evaporation Fronts in the Interstel…

200 papers

Nonlinear non-stationary equation describing evolution of weakly curved premixed flames with arbitrary gas expansion, subject to the Landau-Darrieus instability, is derived. The new equation respects all the conservation laws to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill A. Kazakov , Michael A. Liberman

We explore numerically the morphological patterns of thermo-diffusive instabilities in combustion fronts with a continuum fuel source, within a range of Lewis numbers and ignition temperatures, focusing on the cellular regime. For this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Hossein Azizi , Sebastian Gurevich , Nikolas Provatas

Polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust is the dominant foreground for CMB polarization measurements at high frequencies, with its statistical properties set by the interplay between turbulence and magnetic fields in the multiphase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-27 Yue Hu , Bao Truong , Thiem Hoang , Le Ngoc Tram

The neutral hydrogen (Hi) 21-cm line serves as a powerful tracer of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM). Thermal stability analysis suggests that the neutral ISM is bistable in nature, consisting of the cold neutral medium (CNM) embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Atanu Koley

The main characteristics of the linear Darrieus-Landau instability in the laser ablation flow are investigated. The dispersion relation of the instability is found numerically as a solution to an eigenvalue stability problem, taking into…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Mikhail Modestov , Vitaly Bychkov , Damir Valiev , Mattias Marklund

We study the dynamics of phase transitions in the interstellar medium by means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations. We use a realistic cooling function and generic nonequilibrium initial conditions to follow the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexei G. Kritsuk , Michael L. Norman

We review recent results on the nonlinear development of thermal instability in the context of the turbulent atomic interstellar medium (ISM). First, we pre- sent a brief summary of the linear theory, remarking that, in the atomic ISM, the…

In the outskirts of the intracluster medium (ICM) in galaxy clusters, the temperature decreases with radius. Due to the weakly collisional nature of the plasma, these regions are susceptible to the magneto-thermal instability (MTI), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Thomas Berlok , Eliot Quataert , Martin E. Pessah , Christoph Pfrommer

We consider the evaporation of a thin liquid layer which consists of a binary mixture of volatile liquids. The mixture is on top of a heated substrate and in contact with the gas phase that consists of the same vapour as the binary mixture.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-04 R. K. Nazareth , G. Karapetsas , K. Sefiane , O. Matar , P. Valluri

(Abridged) We discuss the nonlinear development of the isobaric mode of thermal instability (TI) in the context of the atomic interstellar medium (ISM), in order to assess the ability of TI to establish a well-segregated multi-phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , A. Gazol

We have performed time-dependent numerical simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) which account for galactic shear and magnetic fields, vertical gravity, and a radiative cooling function for atomic gas. This allows us to study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

Liquids spreading over a solid substrate under the action of various forces are known to exhibit a long wavelength contact line instability. We use an example of thermally driven spreading on a horizontal surface to study how the stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-05 Roman O. Grigoriev

The interface between a pure liquid and its vapor is usually close to saturation temperature, hence strongly hindering any thermocapillary flow. In contrast, when the gas phase contains an inert gas such as air, surface-tension-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-31 Fabien Chauvet , Sam Dehaeck , Pierre Colinet

We consider the evolution of an isentropic thermal instability in the atomic zone of a photodissociation region (PDR). In this zone, gas heating and cooling are associated mainly with photoelectric emission from dust grains and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 K. V. Krasnobaev , R. R. Tagirova

Using molecular dynamic simulations we study a waterlike model confined between two fixed hydrophobic plates. The system is tested for density, diffusion and structural anomalous behavior and compared with the bulk results. Within the range…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Leandro Batirolla Krott , Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa

A simplified phenomenological model is proposed to couple the long-wave Darrieus--Landau (DL) instability and the short-wave diffusive-thermal (DT) instability in premixed flames. By identifying a cubic coupling term in the linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Prabakaran Rajamanickam

Ambient interstellar material may become entrained in outflows from massive stars as a result of shear flow instabilities. We study the linear theory of the Kelvin - Helmholtz instability, the simplest example of shear flow instability, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Watson , E. G. Zweibel , F. Heitsch , E. Churchwell

We examine the thermodynamic state and cooling of the low-$z$ Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) in five FIRE-2 galaxy formation simulations of Milky Way-mass galaxies. We find that the CGM in these simulations is generally multiphase and…

We outline a novel linear instability that may arise in the dead-zones of protostellar disks, and possibly the fluid interiors of planets and protoplanets. In essence it is an axisymmetric buoyancy instability, but one that would not be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Henrik N. Latter , Julius F. Bonart , Steven A. Balbus

The term "unstable neutral media" (UNM) has traditionally been used to describe the transient phase formed between the warm and cold neutral hydrogen (HI) phases and has not been the focus of HI studies. However, recent observations suggest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-13 Ka Wai Ho , Ka Ho Yuen , Alex Lazarian